Originally Posted by
Valort
This just proves how little you actually know: Hamas NEVER accepted Israel as a state, not as a state, not as a Jewish state. As nothing. Also, PLO never accepted Israel either, not only as a Jewish state, but as a state. On top of that, what is with their racism? Does it bother them so much that Israel are Jews? Hah.
2nd point: Pre 67, Jerusalem was almost completely under Jordanian rule. Reason most east-Jerusalem "Palestinians" have Jordanian passports and Israeli ID cards.
Why would Israel pull back close to 1 million Israeli citizens from a city they pretty much built up from ruins? Splitting Jerusalem is something that Hamas has never agreed to, since they simply want ALL of it.
3rd: Abbas was never willing to compromise. He did, at some point, state he would be willing to give up on the right of return, only to state, later that day, that his words were taken out of context and he simply meant he had no interest in going back to his birthplace: Safed.
All the peace talks were turned down by Palestinians, either by their extremists choosing the peace talks as the best time to begin random attacks on Israeli citizens, or by the Palestinian side dragging the peace talks around day after day saying "maybe", even to all the 3rd parties involved, only to randomly say "Nope, no way" after a month.